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Today, Georgia Tech marks the grand opening of Coda, the flagship building for the Institute’s Technology Square — an area that Georgia Tech President G.P. “Bud” Peterson has called “the Southeast’s premier innovation neighborhood.”

Coda, developed by Portman Holdings and Databank, is special in many ways. At 755,000 square feet, Coda is believed to be the largest structure of its kind: a facility built to actively encourage the collaborations between university researchers —including students — and industry that can lead to new technologies.

Tim Edmonds-King is assistant director of New Student and Transition Programs in Student Life at Georgia Tech.

Nathan Batey, an electrical engineering major, built a working synthesizer atop his cap, and used it to play Georgia Tech’s fight song.

Joel Jassu was born in Banda, Uganda, which evolved into one of the worst slums of the capital city of Kampala as Joel grew up. A chance encounter with an American architect visiting the country on a mission trip set him on a course to earning a master's degree in architecture at Georgia Tech.